Midsummer Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Midsummer Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-hammer-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Midsummer Cottage, Church Street, Beckley and Stowood, OX3 9UT
- OS grid reference
- SP 562 114
- Coordinates
- 51.79879, -1.18606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midsummer Cottage is a house dating from 1742, as indicated by the datestone. It is constructed of limestone rubble and features a partly old plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. The cottage has a two-unit plan that extends to the rear and consists of one storey plus attics. The front has two windows and a rough plinth, with a central door situated between casement windows—three-light on the left and altered to two-light on the right—both of which are set under brick segmental arches. There are also two two-light roof dormers. Above the door, there is a County Insurance plaque, and to the left of the door is the datestone inscribed with "RM/1742". To the left of the cottage, there is an outbuilding with a higher roof and an additional dormer. At the rear, there is a 19th-century rubble wing with a further 20th-century extension. The interior has not been inspected. Midsummer Cottage forms an L-shaped group with the adjacent property, Alflyn.
Local climate
Midsummer Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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